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KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 day agoAh, great, no fallout, fuck that is great super lets detonate millions and the radiatorn will go in the ocean yay it’s not so bad yay
Comment on The list is realistically so much longer.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 day agoAh, great, no fallout, fuck that is great super lets detonate millions and the radiatorn will go in the ocean yay it’s not so bad yay
chaogomu@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You do know that uranium oxide is water soluble right? The ocean has more radioactive material in it than the land does, also water is very good at blocking radiation. That’s why it’s used for spent fuel cooling pools.
So the physics says that if you’re going to have fallout, the ocean is the best place for it. Provided that the fallout doesn’t float. Then it will most likely end up washing up on the shores of Japan.
The key here is that the bombs available in 1950 were orders of magnitude weaker than modern nukes.
Castle Brovo alone was stronger than every bomb from the MacArthur plan combined.
Using hundreds of Castle Brovo sized bombs would fuck up the world, using the bombs MacArthur had access to? Not as much.